You can go to the mall and get a phone plan which provides you a feature smartphone for the price of a cup of coffee a month.

These devices are filled to the brim with sensors; gyroscopes, accelerometers, and even pressure sensors. All kinds of rf transceivers are soldered onto there. Their operating systems are completely proprietary so you have no idea what is actually going on with these phones.

Even when you're not using it it's consistently pinging information to and from cell towers into various data centers and servers. Your location, your moods, how you're getting around, what you're interested in buying, all of that is available for someone to browse should the need arise. And remember, these devices have non-removable batteries now.

These devices have the computing power of supercomputers, and are soon to be augmented by AI. Ask yourself; why does your average normie need that much computing power? To browse Instagram? The devices themselves are never used for anything productive or useful. It's literally just for consumption and programming, and the computing power is there to make it easier to gather all that data.

An anti-smartphone movement needs to happen. These things are the gateway to our enslavement.

Giving normies technology was a mistake. I miss when the internet was a nerdy virgin thing and not full of low iq retards and cooperate assholes.

It's really clear that, as iPhones began to disseminate into the populace in the early '10s, the Final Eternal September began. That was when all the retarded culture war shit started. Now everyone's brain is too fried on wingcuck shit to even build decent communities anymore.

> Giving normies technology was a mistake. I miss when the internet was a nerdy virgin thing and not full of low iq retards and cooperate assholes.
I think that normies are the the victims here. The big corpos are intentionally addicting people and destroying the society we live in. Profit trumps all

>An anti-smartphone movement needs to happen
Yeah but the cat is out of the bag. It's not even that all people have to do is give up their youtubes, tiktoks and whatnots. Banking is now mobile and most people are obligated by their job to have a smartphone. I would like to also remind you that incredible amount of people have a smartphone as their only computer. The best we can hope is strong regulation against addicting services and against banks and companies making us depend on them for basic shit. I know that most people and especially libertarians and against regulation but it's our only hope the same way that its the only barrier that prevents companies from completely destroying nature and living spaces for profit.

my proposal:
EMBRACE: we make an oline service
EXTEND: that the internet people will depend on for their life
EXTINGUISH: with big user base, ban people with smartphone useragent